Fear detection and visual awareness in perceiving bodily expressions

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1182-1189

  Stienen, Bernard M C ^a   De Gelder, Beatrice ^a,b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bodily expressions; Consciousness; Emotion; Masking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION;

ANGER; AWARENESS; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053993530     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024032     Document Type: Article

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